A senior Russian general, Yaroslav Moskalik, was killed in a car blast Friday in what Russian investigators are probing as a ...

IWO JIMA, Japan — Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Monday made a rare visit to the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. The Japanese ...

Iwo Jima (Japan) (AFP) – Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Monday made a rare visit to the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Monday made a rare visit to the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. The Japanese island ...

A regional Australian gallery isn't the first place you'd expect to find a neo-baroque masterpiece that belonged to a Russian tsar. Yet, with some mystery surrounding it, that's just what's happened.

On March 30th, 1867, the American Secretary of State, William H. Seward, signed a treaty with the Russian Minister, Baron Edouard de Stoeckl, to conclude what was perhaps the shrewdest purchase in ...

The extinction of serfdom, first proposed as an academic question by CATHERINE II. -- which was actually initiated by ALEXANDER I ... and that the Emperor is compelled to grapple, not only ...

the brother of Russian Tsar (emperor) Alexander II. As the eldest child in the family and the grandson of Nicholas I, he was destined for a distinguished life. In 1868, driven by his own ambition, he ...